Winter School

What a term it has been at Winter School! It’s hard to believe that it’s the end of September already, in what has been an exciting, challenging and rewarding experience. We’ve reached the end of yet another Winter School, which has been filled with a range of snowsports, academic and personal challenges for each and every student.

As we wrap up the program and our classes this week, each Tutor Group will spend time on Friday reflecting on the Winter School experience and how it will impact their life as they return home and to the School’s Senior Campus.  Each student will plant a native shrub on site as a lasting memory and contribution to our Campus which can grow and always be a constant for both us as a school and them individually here in Jindabyne. We will also be planting an intake tree, one to represent every group who goes through the program and something which will be a lasting tribute to the unique community and experience that each Year Group had.

Our final week will culminate on Saturday with our dress up day on the snow and our Winter School Dinner for students and their parents on Saturday night.

A huge thank you to all of our staff at Winter School this year who have left their own families and homes to be part of Winter School and given so much of their time, energy and good humour to make it such a great place in which to live and learn.

It’s now time for us to say farewell to the Winter School of 2019 and the wide range of activities, classes and experiences that were had, and open our eyes and our hearts to what we can take away from this experience and how this can and will shape our future.

“Winter School was a great experience which I will remember for the rest of my life.” Daniel Phipps.

Emily Quinn Smyth
Winter School Assistant

Mr David Gregory
Head of Winter School
dgregory@redlands.nsw.edu.au